Passport I Noun Bre ˈpɑːspɔːt ˈpæspɔːrt Valid South

• a valid passport
• a south african passport
• i was stopped as i went through passport control (= where passports are checked).
• a passport photo

passport

1. an official document that identifies you as a citizen of a particular country, and that you may have to show when you enter or leave a country
• a valid passport
• a South African passport
• I was stopped as I went through passport control (= where passports are checked).
• a passport photo
2. a thing that makes something possible or enables you to achieve something
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• The only passport to success is hard work.

Extra Examples

• A high score in the test is a passport to success.
• Good qualifications are a passport to success.
• He examined my face carefully before handing back my passport.
• I usually travel on my Irish passport.
• The Embassy made him surrender his passport.
• The European Parliament voted to adopt biometric passports.
• The gold medal is his passport into professional boxing.
• The police think the smugglers are travelling on Irish passports.
• These sensors will cut the delays at passport control.
• We had to queue for ages at passport control.
• You have to show your passport at the border.
• a full British passport
• the UK Passport Agency

Word Origin

• late 15th cent. (denoting authorization to depart from a port): from French passeport, from passer ‘to pass’ + port ‘seaport’.